Psychometric evaluation of the Negative Religious Coping (NRC) Scale of the Brief RCOPE in the Czech environment

ABSTRACT

The Negative Religious Coping (NRC) Subscale is a part of the Brief RCOPE Scale, but can also be used separatelly. It is a brief measure assessing negative religous coping. The aim of this study was to psychometrically evaluate the NRC in Czech conditions. The NRC was administered to 531 religious respondents (25.5 ± 3.4 years, 43.5% male). Negative religious coping and religiosity, together with basic sociodemographic information, were measured. The non-parametric comparison of different sociodemographic groups showed no differences between genders and almost no differences among the age groups. Significantly lower NRC scores were obtained by widows/widowers. The Czech version of the NRC showed a coherent one-dimensional factor structure and high reliability, with Cronbach’s α = .84 (95% CI .83–.85) and McDonald’s ω_t = .90. Our findings indicate that the Czech version of the NRC scale may reliably assess religious coping. This instrument might be useful both for research and clinical praxis.

KEYWORDS:

• Negative religious coping
• spiritual struggles
• spirituality/religiosity
• NRC scale of the Brief RCOPE
• psychometric evaluation

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

ORCID

Anna Janu http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6701-7435

Klara Malinakova http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6939-1204

Alice Kosarkova http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6422-9021

Jana Furstova http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4057-2540

Peter Tavel http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7072-001X

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, Project Biological and Psychological Aspects of Spiritual Experience and Their Associations with Health [contract number 19-19526S] and by the Sts Cyril and Methodius Faculty of Theology of the Palacky University in Olomouc internal project Determinants of Health from a Spiritual, Psychological, Social and Biological Point of View [grant number IGA-CMTF- 2019-006].